The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon has announced the settlement of a lawsuit alleging that agents sent by President Donald Trump in 2020 to protect a federal courthouse used excessive force against racial justice protesters.

The federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the monument, finalized a new resource management plan in early January that outlines how the government will take care of the over 100,000 acres of breathtaking landscape.

The BLM manages wild horse and burro populations in 10 western states. In 1998, the program spent about $17 million dollars. By 2023, the expenditure had exploded to $158 million. What did that buy the taxpayer?

The announcements come just days before the start of the Trump administration, which is widely expected to promote extractive industries over conservation.

Nada Wolff Culver, BLM’s former principal deputy director and one of the architects of the signature Biden administration regulation, said she fears this signals the new administration is moving to dismantle the rule that seeks to balance conservation with energy development, livestock grazing, recreation and other uses of BLM rangelands.

Tillamook’s Bureau of Land Management field office has moved into a brand-new building located at the Port of Tillamook Bay, after vacating its old Third Street location last July.

Curry County wanted to quickly remove a homeless camp from a slip of public property in Brookings, so it leased the parcel to a nearby business owner for $1. That allowed sheriff’s deputies to issue a criminal citation for trespassing on private property to the remaining camper, a paraplegic man living in a tent.

One of the many fortunes of being retired is having more time and capacity for volunteering. My ideal volunteer opportunities combine three things: A cause that benefits this Central Oregon

Will the Senate GOP confirm controversial picks like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.? Here’s the hearings schedule and list of who’s been confirmed.

A December report from the Northwest Power and Conservation Council shows a rolling 10-year average return of 2.3 million adult salmon and steelhead to the Columbia River Basin annually, higher than the 1990s but only halfway to the Council’s goal of 5 million and far lower than historic returns.

A stretch of land in southern Oregon with historical significance, including the likely location of a treaty signing and near the site of a massacre, is returning to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

Jon Raby, who previously worked at the Bureau of Land Management’s Lakeview office, has been named the agency’s acting director of the national bureau, which employs 10,000 staffers who oversee